Congress Pressures DoJ With PIRATE Part II

Posted by Zonk on Friday November 9, 2007 @12:45AM from the nothing-better-to-do-obviously dept.

Anonymous Pirate writes "Sen. Patrick Leahy (D-VT) and Sen. John Cornyn (R-TX) have re-introduced the 'PIRATE Act' (pdf) to Congress. According to Ars Technica, the purpose of this act is to get the DoJ to go after individual copyright infringers. It would allow the Department of Justice to bring civil lawsuits instead of criminal ones so that they would be able to prosecute copyright infringers with only a minimal burden of proof, rather than the heavier burden required for criminal prosecution." Took a long time to do a sequel; we first talked about this proposal quite some time ago.

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Re:Screw that by Dunbal · 2007-11-09 02:07 · Score: 2, Funny

why the hell should the DoJ, a government institution, police what happens between other people

Buried deep inside the bill is a paragraph that changes the name of the "Department of Justice" to "The Ministry of Love".

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No worries... by Karl0Erik · 2007-11-09 02:07 · Score: 1, Funny

...a "NINJA Act" is on the way.
Re:Huh? by Anonymous Coward · 2007-11-09 03:41 · Score: 0, Funny

Just wanted to point out that everyone is saying "I anal."